Sunday 18 September saw our final departure from Asia and we headed from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai in a fairly orderly fashion - queue, queue, queue, stress, run, collapse with a minute to spare into our seats... then wait an hour on the plane for everyone behind us in all the queues to make it to the plane. We left an hour late and arrived 10 minutes late - via every bump in the sky between Malaysia and Dubai - but it shows they can catch up time when they have to....

Tuesday morning dawned fine and clear at the holiday home in Cahore and we were both very excited at the journey ahead - it's been almost 2 years since I've done a 7+ hour flight and well over a year for James. We returned Zippy to his home in Enniscorthy and said a final fond farewell to Ann at the Enniscorthy bus 'station'. Well 'stop' really. If it weren't for the hordes of people coming to and fro and intercity and airport buses, you wouldn't even realise ...